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It is the common practice in all the Bengali districts of India as well as in parts of the Mahratta districts for large groups of people, as well as solitary individuals, to engage in the protracted chanting of God's name or some phrase incorporating it. The mental level on which it is done is like that of hymn singing in the West.
-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 74